PEARLS & AMBER: TOILET PAPER WORLD DOT COM

I was looking for Handiwipes. Nice, clean cut Handiwipes, which had disappeared from the grocery stores I go to so insidiously, I hadn't really come to grips with it.

I don't take kindly to favorite items disappearing from the shelves of our great American grocery stores--

It happens. God knows it happens, and it even happens to ME. Even when I try like hell to keep my personal demands of the grocery stores easy, simple, and the SAME thing, year after year after year after--

You get the picture.

Kitchen apparel is extremely important, and the rag I have hanging out at my sink, just waiting to be of service, is the most important item in my kitchen.

I love and adore Handiwipes. I have used them since my first kitchen, back there in those hazy days when I got married in college, and found out my mother was right--marriage is a lot harder than boring ole college.

Handiwipes have been disappearing from my grocery stores for about three years now, and it has been a hard adjustment. First it was locating them in different grocery stores than my regulars. Okay, I could deal.

Then it seemed to become incredibly hard to actually find them in said grocery stores, and indeed, it was as if the grocery stores were playing mind games. Why, for instance, would Handiwipes be hanging next to cat food? Next to frozen pizza? Next to scissors?

By now, vaguely alarmed that they might disappear altogether, I took to buying every packet hanging there, when I found them. I figured this action might prod the buyer for the store to purchase more, since Handiwipes were so obviously popular.

No. No, this did not create any kind of compensating action.

And Handiwipe continued to fade from my life.

Until they were gone altogether, and I was being forced to use all kinds of terrible items that had the nerve to look like Handiwipes, claim they could do the same thing as Handiwipes, and indeed, make me HAPPIER than Handiwipes.

I've been a slow learner in terms of buying things on the Internet. Even slower in rushing to the Internet to find me what I think I can't find anymore. Like Pacquins. I went for years without Pacquins, mourning quietly and in private, until one day, unable to hold back my grief any longer, I spewed my tale of woe to a friend, and she said "Have you checked the Internet?" Voila I had my Pacquins, before I could cry myself to sleep one more time!

So it was with my precious, much missed Handiwipes. One day last week, the lightbulb went on. Suddenly I thought Handiwipes retrieval = Internet.

Sure enough there they were. Pounds of them. Boxes of them. And I bought big time. And I am happy with life here in these United States once again.

I do, however, have one quibble. The company from which I bought my Handiwipes is called

TOILET PAPER WORLD.

Toilet paper? That's the item they chose to use for their all important name, when they in truth, sell eight million other items equally as recognizable as toilet paper.

I apologize for my squeamishness. I myself certainly make good use of toilet paper, and of course have my favorite brand...which come to think of it is getting harder and harder to find--

And in fact, the lightbulb just went off again.

It is crystal clear why they chose TOILET PAPER as their sobriquet.

Everyone but everyone uses this item...OFTEN, COPIOUSLY, FOREVER.

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I am glad you enjoy our name! Rest assured, we are just as passionate about Handi Wipes as we are about Toilet Paper. Let me know if I can ever help you!
- Jessica @ ToiletPaperWorld.com

Posted by: Jessica Fischburg | May 11, 2009 at 12:48 PM

Yes everyone uses too much toilet paper!One major factor could be the size of the average butt keeps growing but let's not go there. Instead let's save money and the Earth and be clean at the same time! Get serious and add Bathroom Bidet Sprayers to all your bathrooms. I think Dr. Oz on Oprah said it best: "if you had pee or poop on your hand, you wouldn't wipe it off with paper, would you? You'd wash it off” Available at http://www.bathroomsprayers.com with these you won't even need toilet paper any more, just a towel to dry off! Don’t worry, you can still leave some out for guests and can even make it the soft stuff without felling guilty. It's cheap and can be installed without a plumber; and runs off the same water line to your toilet. You'll probably pay for it in a few months of toilet paper savings. And after using one of these you won't know how you lasted all those years with wadded up handfuls of toilet paper. As for water use a drought is always a concern and must be dealt with prudently but please remember that in the big picture the industrial water users always far exceed the water use of household users and in the case of toilet paper manufacture it is huge. The pollution and significant power use from that manufacturing process also contributes to global warming so switching to a hand bidet sprayer and lowering your toilet paper use is very green in multiple ways. Blog; http://jeff9.livejournal.com/932.html

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